Dulce Et Decorum Est pro pateria mori...or is it?

Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori (Or is it?) Despite the government's knowledge of the intense horrors of war, they persist on sending innocent soldiers onto the battlefield. Two pieces of literature used to describe these intense horrors are the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and the poem Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen. Both authors, soldiers of WWI, write about their experience in the war and …

…the solders had to undergo, because the authors experienced it first hand. They knew what it was like to be shamed into fighting a war that they knew nothing about. All they knew that it was their duty to protect and serve there country because it was the honorable thing to do. Unfortunately, the honorable thing to do involved loosing close friends and possibly your own life to the government's need to win the war.